View a FREE sample

This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Hot Weather, Camp Meeting, Second World War, First World War and Poetry.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The first edition of One Man's Meat was published in what year?
(a) 1942.
(b) 1943.
(c) 1940.
(d) 1941.

2. How much money had White calculated it cost him to maintain one turkey on his farm in "Security"?
(a) $402.85.
(b) $424.23.
(c) $203.45.
(d) $643.23.

3. What movie did White cite in which Bette Davis plays a woman who relinquishes her wealth to move to the country to be with her physician husband in "Movies"?
(a) "Juarez."
(b) "Jezebel."
(c) "Dark Victory."
(d) "Kid Galahad."

4. What day did White go to the campground for the pièce de résistance in "Camp Meeting"?
(a) Sunday.
(b) Thursday.
(c) Saturday.
(d) Friday.

5. Where did E. B. White move from to Maine?
(a) Connecticut.
(b) New York.
(c) Maryland.
(d) Rhode Island.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who had a campground in the next county in "Camp Meeting"?

2. Where had White's son attended a "medium-priced private institution" in "Education"?

3. With whom did E. B. White sympathize in sharing hay fever in "The Summer Catarrh"?

4. What grew by the potatoes below the barn in "Salt Water Farm"?

5. How many children's books did White say his wife received in the past season in "Children's Books"?

(see the answer key)

This section contains 195 words (approx. 1 page at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample